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00W's AIO Smorgasbord

Aquarium Profile and Equipment

What type of saltwater aquarium is this?
Mixed Reef
Total Water Volume
115
When did you start this tank?
Jun 16, 2015
What is your aquarium made of?
Glass
Aquarium Length (inches)
48
Aquarium Width (inches)
18
Aquarium Height (inches)
24
Aquarium Overflow/Drain
Drain Style (durso, herbie, etc)
Aquarium Sump
YES
Sump Water Volume
20
Aquarium Stand
Wood
Aquarium Controller
NO
Protein Skimmer
NO
Protein Skimmer Make and Model
Lifereef vs3-24
Aquarium Reactors
  1. None
Return Pump
Eheim compaction 3000
What types of equipment are you using for water flow and circulation?
  1. Powerhead
  2. Wavemaker
Water Flow and Circulation Equipment List
Jebao OW 20 x2, OW10, Jebao 1300, 2 sicce small WaveMaker.
Aquarium Lighting
  1. T5 Fluorescent
  2. Natural Sunlight
Lighting Equipment List
Odyssea T5 HO fixture
Lighting PAR and Goals
Low
Dosing Equipment Detail
None
Auto Top Off or ATO
NO
Aquarium Heating and Cooling
  1. I am using a heater or heaters
Water Temperature
77
Heating and Cooling Equipment Detail
Eheim 300w with ink bird controller

Aquarium Water Chemistry and Parameters

pH Level
8.3
Specific Gravity
1.027
Nitrate or NO3
19
Phosphate or PO4
1.12
Calcium
440
Alkalinity
7
Magnesium
1300
Salt Brand
Red sea blue bucket
Trace Element Dosing
Kent essential elements

Aquarium Natural and Mechanical Filtration

Substrate
Bare Bottom (BB)
Substrate Level
No Substrate
Live Rock
75
Live Rock Type
Unknown
Nutrient Export
  1. Protein Skimmer
  2. Filter Sock
Water Changes
YES
Water Change Details
10% every Monday

Aquarium Tank Inhabitants (fish, coral, invert etc.)

Fish List
  1. Angelfish
  2. Clownfish
  3. Surgeonfish Tang
  4. Other Predatory
Total Fish
4
Coral List
  1. Zoanthids
  2. Soft Coral
  3. Mushroom Coral
  4. Other
Total Corals
6
Invert List
  1. Anemone
  2. Snails
  3. None
Total Inverts
0
Livestock Detail
Have a trigger which is not listed.
Livestock Quarantine
  1. No Quarantine

Aquarium Nutrition (fish, coral, invert etc. feeding)

Fish Feeding Frequency
Multiple Daily Feedings
Coral Feeding Frequency
Do Not Feed Coral Directly
Fish and Coral Feeding
  1. Flake
  2. Pellet
  3. Frozen
  4. Algae Strips
  5. Other
Auto Feeder
NO

Additional Aquarium Information

What do you think are the keys to your success in reefing?
Patience
@kingranch2003 How did the corals look today?
My big green Cynarina still looks bad, and while slowly peeking back out, my euphyllia all look pretty weak still. Several of the new acros died as well as a branching cyphastrea. But, my bigger, corals and zoas/acans look good. I'm hoping the losses have stopped here. If that whole euphyllia arch dies, idk what I'll do. It's like half of my rock work.
Thanks for asking buddy. How are your favia looking?
 
My big green Cynarina still looks bad, and while slowly peeking back out, my euphyllia all look pretty weak still. Several of the new acros died as well as a branching cyphastrea. But, my bigger, corals and zoas/acans look good. I'm hoping the losses have stopped here. If that whole euphyllia arch dies, idk what I'll do. It's like half of my rock work.
Thanks for asking buddy. How are your favia looking?
I hope everything stops there brother, and they start to recover, the favias still look bad but not worse, I think it's a start
 
Where should I put my bam bams ? I think I'm going to make a goni garden with the 2 gonis I got, and I already mounted the hammer and torches.
 
I thought so lol because I had never seen a censored word in any of your texts lol
Looking at it and thinking about it there are only three stars, I think I might have left the “r” out of the word frag, my bad.:astonished-face:
 
Where should I put my bam bams ? I think I'm going to make a goni garden with the 2 gonis I got, and I already mounted the hammer and torches.
I think on a zoa island, isolated. I think Luis would agree.
 
I hope everything stops there brother, and they start to recover, the favias still look bad but not worse, I think it's a start
Thanks man. We'll see how it goes. I'm glad yours are hopefully swinging back. You have some killer favia pieces
 
Where should I put my bam bams ? I think I'm going to make a goni garden with the 2 gonis I got, and I already mounted the hammer and torches.
What I understand about zoas is that the more light they have, the more color they will have but they will grow less in size, and the less light they will have more growth but less coloration
 
Where should I put my bam bams ? I think I'm going to make a goni garden with the 2 gonis I got, and I already mounted the hammer and torches.
Maybe on the back wall and let them cover it? The lady I bought some corals from had part of the back of her tank covered in zoas and it looked really cool.
 
Maybe on the back wall and let them cover it? The lady I bought some corals from had part of the back of her tank covered in zoas and it looked really cool.
I've never seen it but it must look super cool
 
He said the way he would do it is start unplugging stuff one by one to see if that will show you which one has a short. He's not here right now but my thoughts are also if it only happened one time could it possibly have just been a surge in electricity to your house for some reason and the surge protector did what is supposed to do and cut off?
possibly. the sensitive stuff though was still working. like stove/microwave etc...Slightest glitch those blink. When I went in the sump, a bag of chemipure was on top of the pump. it's possible is sucked it in and created extra work the shut it off. it unfortunately caused some extra ATO water to spill in. Still in range at 1.024 instead of 1.026 so I shut the ATO for the day to slowly evaporate it off rather than try and increase the salinity to match. the heaters are two 350's and last night thought it was cold outside and inside is fine, it cold have turned both on which did it. tomorrow I'm planning to clean the skimmer.
 
I've never seen it but it must look super cool
It really was I'm thinking about maybe trying it in my pico with a couple of the zoas I have.
 
Any way to check the amperage in the breaker cables, if more amperage is coming in than the breaker has, it is a bad equipment, if less is coming in it is the breaker that is bad, I would start from there
somewhere I have one of those. I'm thinking it's one of the pumps. the UPS alarm shutting down was what awakened me. That keeps the pump running. So I don't think it was the main pump. must have been the skimmer pump.
 

IF YOU HAD TO OPERATE EVERYTHING ELSE MANUALLY, WHICH AUTOMATED SYSTEM WOULD YOU KEEP?

  • Auto top-off

    Votes: 56 58.3%
  • Automated dosing

    Votes: 6 6.3%
  • Mechanical filtration / roller filter

    Votes: 4 4.2%
  • Automated water testing

    Votes: 3 3.1%
  • Automatic feeding

    Votes: 1 1.0%
  • Lighting schedule

    Votes: 17 17.7%
  • Controller and remote monitoring

    Votes: 4 4.2%
  • Leak detection and emergency shutoff

    Votes: 1 1.0%
  • Automatic water changes

    Votes: 3 3.1%
  • None. I prefer to operate everything manually

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Something else (explain in the comments)

    Votes: 1 1.0%
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